# Guy Greville, 9th Earl of Warwick

Guy David Greville, 9th Earl of Warwick, 9th Earl Brooke (born 30 January 1957) is a British peer. He was a crossbench member of the House of Lords from 1996 to 1999.
Greville was styled as Lord Brooke from 1984. On 20 January 1996, he succeeded his father as Earl of Warwick (G.B., 1759), Earl Brooke of Warwick Castle (G.B., 1756), and Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (E., 1621).

## Early life

Guy David Greville was born in a nursing home in Marylebone, London, England on 30 January 1957, as the elder child to the David Greville, 8th Earl of Warwick (1934–1996) and his wife, Sarah Anne Chester Greville, Lady Brooke (née Beatty; born 1934), a socialite and former fashion model. His younger sister is Lady Charlotte Anne Greville (born 6 June 1958). His parents divorced when he was 10 years old.
Greville often enjoyed play dates at Warwick Castle with his maternal cousin, Iona Annabelle Neilson (1969–2018), during his childhood. He was with Neilson in Perth, Western Australia, in 1985, when she was attacked by a man during her gap year. His maternal great-grandfather was the American mining magnate Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (the "King of Copper"; 1875–1968). His paternal grandfather was Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick (1911–1984). When he was 14, his mother married the Polish prince and architect Kasimir Korybut, divorcing three years later. When he was 18, his mother married her third husband, the racehorse trainer Harry Thomson Jones (1925–2007). He gained a stepsister and two stepbrothers.
Greville was educated at Eton College and the École des Roches in France.

## Career

Greville made a career in mining and property in Australia, where he was a founding shareholder in Windimurra Vanadium, serving as a director of the company from 1991 to 2009.
Greville was chairman of Central Asia Resources from 2008 to 2013.

## Personal life

In 1979, Greville's sister married Andrew Fraser (b. 1952), the youngest son of Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat. They had two daughters together, Daisy Rosamond (born 1985) and Laura Alfreda (born 1987). On 15 March 1994, his brother-in-law was killed in Tanzania by a charging buffalo, and 11 days later, his brother-in-law's eldest brother, Simon Fraser, Master of Lovat, died while hunting.
Greville married his first wife, Susan McKinley "Susie" Cobbold (née Wilson; born 1946), daughter of George William McKinley Wilson, of Melbourne, Australia, in 1981. Cobbold is 11 years his senior. Their only child, a son and the heir apparent, Charles Fulke Chester Greville, Lord Brooke, was born in Perth, Western Australia on 27 July 1982. Upon this marriage, he gained two stepchildren from his wife's former marriage to Nicholas Sydney Cobbold. The couple later separated and their divorce was finalised in 1992.
Greville married his second wife, Louisa Heenan (born 1966), daughter of Dr Peter Heenan, of Perth, in Westminster, Greater London on 2 December 1996. Heenan is nine years his junior. Their only child, a son, The Hon. Rudolf Maxwell Greville, was born in Perth on 17 December 2003.
On 9 July 2014, portraits that used to hang on the walls of Warwick Castle were sold as part of an auction of Old Masters at Sotheby's. The artwork, estimated to be worth in excess of £5M, were owned by Greville. His father had sold Warwick Castle and many of its contents to The Tussauds Group in 1978, reportedly as a 99-year lease. The castle was then converted from private residence (although open to the public) to a major visitor attraction.